{"id":35418,"date":"2021-08-17T22:48:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/greater-stability-as-western-forces-help-to-secure-kabul-airport"},"modified":"2021-08-17T22:48:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:48:37","slug":"greater-stability-as-western-forces-help-to-secure-kabul-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35418","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Greater stability\u2019 as western forces help to secure Kabul airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commander of UK\u2019s evacuation effort says aim is 1,000 people a day leaving, but airport could be closed at any time<\/p>\n<p>US, UK and other western forces have helped to secure Kabul\u2019s international airport, allowing the RAF to begin mass airlifts out of the Afghan capital, the commander of Britain\u2019s evacuation effort has said.<\/p>\n<p>V-Adm Ben Key, the commander of joint operations, said there was now \u201cconsiderably greater stability\u201d on the ground, ending the \u201cdistressing scenes\u201d of Monday when some desperate Afghans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/kabul-airport-chaos-and-panic-as-afghans-and-foreigners-attempt-to-flee-the-capital\">clung to military aircraft<\/a> as they took off.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/greater-stability-as-western-forces-help-to-secure-kabul-airport\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commander of UK\u2019s evacuation effort says aim is 1,000 people a day leaving, but airport could be closed at any timeUS, UK and other western forces have helped to secure Kabul\u2019s international airport, allowing the RAF to begin mass airlifts out of the A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,938,2293,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-military","category-royal-air-force","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35419,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35418\/revisions\/35419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}